KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – At a news conference at the Kennedy Space Center press site held on Feb. 27, new NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced sweeping changes to Project Artemis – increasing the flight cadence for the SLS and Orion moon rocket by adding more test flights to improve resiliency and reliability as well as changing the mission goals.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) and Orion spacecraft mega moon rocket for the Artemis II crewed moonshot mission completed its rollback from launch pad 39B to the VAB where it arrived around 8 p.m. EST, Feb. 25, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida – to fix the helium flow interruption issue detected in the ICPS upper stage during
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) and Orion spacecraft mega moon rocket for the Artemis II crewed moonshot mission has begun its rollback from launch pad 39B to the VAB at 9:38 a.m. EST, Feb. 25, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida – to fix the helium flow interruption issue detected in the ICPS upper stage during testing overnight Feb. 21
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Bad news for NASA Artemis II launch! An issue with interruption of highly purified helium gas flow was detected in the ICPS upper stage during testing overnight Feb. 21 at Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida forcing rollback to the VAB. Helium is required in various SLS systems for pressurization and
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA completed a fully successful cryogenic fueling test and simulated launch countdown test of its SLS (Space Launch System) mega moon rocket during the 2nd attempt at a wet dress rehearsal (WDR) on Thursday, Feb. 19 at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. “Engineers loaded more than 700,000 gallons of liquid propellant into the rocket, sent a closeout
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER/CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – As part of the ongoing investigation into why significant levels of gaseous hydrogen were detected during the recent WDR wet dress rehearsal cryogenic propellant loading test on Feb. 2 – that forced NASA to abort the final steps of the test – the agency conducted an unannounced liquid hydrogen (LH2) partial fueling test of
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER/TITUSVILLE/CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – We had a few opportunities to photograph NASA’s Artemis II moon rocket from locations on the Kennedy Space Center as well as off site from Titusville along the Indian River lagoon – as the 2-day long Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) cryogenic fueling and simulated countdown was in progress since the evening of Jan. 31.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – I was interviewed live by FOX 35 Orlando on Feb. 3 at the Kennedy Space Center press site following NASA’s news conference for the media discussing why the WDR (wet dress rehearsal) cryogenic propellant fueling test for the Artemis II moon rocket ended early overnight Feb 2/3 due to serious hydrogen leaks. Also- what’s ahead
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – The first WDR (wet dress rehearsal) cryogenic propellant fueling test for the Artemis II moon rocket ended early overnight Feb. 2/3 when it was halted due to serious hydrogen leaks that plagued the test at multiple points throughout the day and evening. NASA is now working to fix the hydrogen leaks which reached a dangerous
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER/CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – I was interviewed live by WESH 2 NBC News Orlando on Jan. 30 for my comments and analysis update explaining two NASA human spaceflight missions – namely NASAs Artemis II human lunar flyby status on Artemis II despite the cold Florida weather and the NASA SpaceX Crew-12 launch status to ISS. WESH 2’s Michelle Imperato and Stewart Moore